The brooding, mysterious Ysuran has few memories to speak of... stumbling into the Graycloak Hills and being wordlessly turned away by his moon elf kin there... carrying a black tome, presumably his, from which he learned his name and trade: necromancer, a wizard specializing in the dark art of death magic.

While wandering in search of his identity, Ysuran finds himself strangely compelled to aid those he comes across. He travels to Baldur’s Gate in search of answers from the well-known sage Omduil, but instead learns of the troubles plaguing the great port city.

Ysuran is a potent spell-caster who, despite his poor physical combat ability, can grow to become awesomely powerful. As a necromancer who has chosen evocation as his school of opposition, he is very skilled with spells that create, modify, or destroy life force, but cannot use spells such as fireball or lightning bolt. He cannot wear any armor without training or wield great weapons or bows.

Ysuran has a number of passive and active feats/spells he can use to help him on him way.

At a certain point in the game, Ysuran can do an optional quest for a number of bonus feats. This is detailed in the walkthrough.